Physico Chemical Treatment of water & waste water
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Physico Chemical Treatment of water & waste water Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Physico Chemical Treatment of water & waste water (subject code 4351302) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4351302)Unit 1 Examination of water/waste water and process of screening and skimming
- 1.1. Characteristics and Examination of water and wastewater and variation in flow
- 1.2. Standards of quality of treated water and wastewater and types of impurity like suspended, dissolved and colloidal impurities
- 1.3. Purpose of screenings, skimming, flotation and flow equalization
- 1.4. Types of bar racks and screens
- 1.5. Working of skimming tank
- 1.6. Disposal of screenings
- 1.7. Types of flotation: Dissolved and dispersed
- 1.8. Types of equalization: In line and off line
Unit 2 Sedimentation
- 2.1. Principles of Sedimentation and Stokes’ law applied to fluids
- 2.2. Types of particle settling
- 2.3. Classification of sedimentation tanks on basis of shape and flow
- 2.4. Factors influencing sedimentation
- 2.5. Deciding size of sedimentation tank
- 2.6. Coagulation and flocculation – purpose, principle
- 2.7. Types of coagulation and Determination of optimum coagulation dose.
Unit 3 Filtration
- 3.1. Theory of filtration, Uniformity coefficient and effective size
- 3.2. Type of filters -Slow sand filter, rapid sand filter, depth filters, pressure sand filter
- 3.3. Filter clogging, Turbidity breakthrough and Filter backwash
- 3.4. Advances in filtration Physico chemical treatment of water & waste water Course Code: 4351302
Unit 4 Softening Desalination & Disinfection
- 4.2. Methods of softening - Zeolite, lye, lime-soda, Ion- exchange method etc.
- 4.3. Methods of removal of dissolved solids - solar distillation gadgets and plants, direct freezing, reverse osmosis, electrolysis
- 4.4. Methods of disinfection -chlorination – chlorine dose, chlorine demand, residual chlorine, breakpoint chlorination
- 4.5. Color removal methods
- 4.6. Advanced Oxidation process like photo catalytic treatment, Fenton and ozone catalytic treatment, Introduction to Sono hybrid waste water treatment and its types Unit– V Sludge Dewatering and Disposal
- 5.1. Sources of sludge
- 5.2. Estimation of bulk density of sludge
- 5.3. Methods of dewatering and thickening of sludge
- 5.4. Elutriation of sludge
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